Overview
- Ukraine’s Defence Ministry released battlefield footage Saturday confirming an AI turret is in combat use and in service with more than ten units, with plans to widen deployment.
- The turret spots and tracks drones on its own, calculates their path, and then fires only after a human operator approves the shot with one button.
- Officials say the system can hit fiber‑optic‑controlled drones, which use a cable link and often ignore radio jamming, by relying on direct gunfire rather than electronic disruption.
- The turret comes from a company in Ukraine’s Brave1 defense tech cluster, as related efforts by Frontline Robotics and by Roboneers with NeoLens show a fast pipeline from lab to field.
- Reports differ on which unit first used the system, with the Defence Ministry citing the K‑2 Brigade and Ukrainska Pravda pointing to the 20th Unmanned Systems Brigade.